April 12, 2003

The Scoop on Star: He was benched for bashing AT&T?

I haven't bothered to post about this story yet, because I didn't feel like give Star any more publicity. But yeah, the controversial (read: loathsome) host of Hot 97's morning show here in N.Y. is in trouble once again, and off the air for who knows how long.

In the past Star has been attacked for his alleged anti-semitism and had infamous on-air clashes with Tigger, Prodigy, and Conrad Muhammad (who gave him a hearty thrashing). He was also suspended once before after mocking Aaliyah's death, which endangered Hot's cash flow since it outraged her fiancee Damon Dash. This also inspired Q-Tip to read a letter on the air criticizing Star, which inexplicably led to Q-Tip being banned from Hot 97 by their widely reviled VP Tracy Cloherty (as revealed in our interview here).

Now Star (along with his longtime companion Bucwild) has been off the air again for about a week, and as you can see here Hot's management has been tight-lipped about exactly what he stepped in this time. But I've done some snooping around, and heard from good sources that Star was suspended for comments relating to AT&T, who unfortunately for him is one of Hot's sponsors. It seems the station lost a $50,000 deal due to his corny jokes.

"The reason is not for general consumption - not even something the audience would understand," said Tracy Cloherty, Emmis' programming VP. "The rule he broke was not supposed to be broken," Cloherty told The Post.

So I guess you have some rules that are supposed to be broken? Evidently this translates to: "Disrespect jews, women, our own people? Whatever. But disrespect our advertisers and you've got trouble."

Posted by jsmooth995 at April 12, 2003 7:28 PM

Comments

You obviously don't leave the country much. Cuz if you did, you'd know that when you come back in, there's a sign at Customs that reads:

"Welcome to America. Disrespect jews, women, our own people...whatever. But disrespect our advertisers and you've got trouble."

Posted by: Damali at April 12, 2003 7:43 PM

What the fuck? people, especially stupid people need to get slapped around alittle, not ignorant people, they have an excuse, but stupid people need to get smacked around alittle,"common sense"
is a rare comodity these days *sigh*

Posted by: Fatal at April 12, 2003 8:02 PM

Nice display of Money is The most important thing here. Nice, very nice... This is why I don't listen to commercial radio. They don't even respect their own listeners but they will kiss sponsors' ass if necessary (or even if it isn't)!

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